The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03

THE EAST.
GENERAL A BRAN s. DURYEA, the old Zou-
ave commander, was stricken down by
paralysis at New York the other day. His
mind was not affected and the shock was not
expected to prove fatal.
A NEW railroad deal, in which the Atchi-
son, Topeka a. Santa Fe is interested, is un-
der way in New York. ltincludes the pur-
chase Of the St. Louis a. Chicago railroad,
making direct connection with the Atchi-
son and Lake Erie & Western. This would
give the Atchison a through line from Chi
cago to st. Louis, aud make its system en-
tirely independent.
JAY GoULD, Russell Sage, Frederick L.
Ames, John T. Terry and General 4. T.
Ecl1ert have been reelected directors Of
the American Telegraph q Cable Com
pany, New York
SEVERAL riotous coke workers in the Con
nellsville. Pa, region have been arrested.
EDMUND VoN TILLY, professor of Ian
guages in n commercial college in New
York City, committed suicide the other day,
leaving note that his body should be Gre
mated.
THE thirteenth annual convention Of the
Young Mems Catholic Union of the United
States took place at New York on the 25th.
The delegates numbered 400.
DISTRICT Assembly 40, of New York, has
''spottersr employed on the Third avenue
discover the business men who patronize
the road. Notes are then sent TO them
warning them that they are injuring their
business, and advising them to ride on
some other road.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI and Princess LilinoSa-
loani and their suite sailed from New Y Yorlz
on the 25th for Europe on the steamer City
Of Rome.
IT is said that the Pennsylvania road in
tenus to obtain entrance to New York City
at "a central point by tunneling the Hudson
river
REV RICHARD NEWTON, d. D., the distin-
guished Protestant-Episcopal clergyman,
died at his residence at Chestnut hill, Phil
adclphia, on the 25th.
THE twenty-ninth General Assembly of
the United Presbyterian Church OF North
America began at Philadelphia on the 26th
with about 800 delegates, comprising an
equal number of ministers and laymen,
present
THE supreme Court of Buffalo, N. Y,
has ordered the foreclosure for SlS0,O00 of
the mortgage against the New York, Chi
cago A. ST. Louis railroad.
JUDGE BEACH, OF the New York Supreme
Court, has appointed "a commission to in
quire into the sanity OF Dundas Dick, the
patent medicine manufacturer. Mr.. Dick
was arrested in Brooklyn some weeks age
as he was announcing himself tn the public
to be Jesus Christ. He has been in the
Bloomingdale asylum since his arrest.
GEORGE A. BIRCH q Co, Wholesale gro
GERS and commission merchants Of Albany,
~ ", a house of old and prominent stand
ing, have made an assignment. The prefer
ence amounts to SGS00O
THE eleventh biennial session OF the gen.
eral council of the Reformed Episcopal
Church opened at Philadelphia on the 25th
By an explosion of gas in mine atNanti'
coke, Pa, in which twenty-siN men were
killed in December, 1888. three laborers
were fatally burned recently.
Tue Belt Line stables and seventy five
dwellings at Tenth avenue and Fifty-third
street, New York burned early on the
morning Of the 21th. 10 was thought thai
no lives wero lost, but the property de
stroyed was said to be over Sl,0OO,O00
+. c. SMITH, the attorney OF the Law and
Order Society, at Brdgetou, n. J., was
terribly beaten by roughs the other night
Ills opposition 20 the liquor dealers wa;
supposed 70 have led TO the assault upon
HIM.
THE journeymen stoneCu tiers of Phila
delphia, to the number or about 800, quit
work the other day on account of the EN-
ployment Of nOn-union men in some Of the
yards.
AN east bound freight train on the st
Johnsbury a. Lake Champlain railroad raI
into a washout ten miles east Of Norris
vile, Vt, on the 9th. The fireman was
killed and the conductor and engineer were
badly injured. The engine and five car,
were in the washout.
C. +. a. +. BEACKETT, leading dry good
dealers, Of Biddeford and Norway, Ne.
and Pennington, n. H., failed recently
The liabilities were heavy, but the eXac
financial standing Of the firm was no
known.
OK the night OF the 25th, as the fast linz
west was nearing Kittanning Point, nea
Altoona. Pa, the wheel Of q car on tran
east burst and tho car crushed into tw
passenger coaches with terrible effect, kill
ing instantly four men and lnjuring man.
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